Calling for an update to certain Occupational Safety and Health Regulations and certain Environmental Protection Agency programs relating to highly hazardous chemicals.

That it is the sense of Congress that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration should update regulations concerning refinery and chemical plant safety, including the Process Safety Management regulations (29 C.F.R. 1910.199), and the EPA should update its Risk Management Plan rule pursuant to section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments. These updated regulations should be no less comprehensive than those in place in California, and similarly should be based on the industry’s own best practices.